Kerouac: Beat Painting Sandrina Bandera;Alessandro Castiglioni

Kerouac's spontaneous bop poetics in paint: a little-known side of the Beat iconAs well as being the author of novels that defined postwar America and helped launch the counterculture, Jack Kerouac was also a prolific painter and draftsman. Most of Kerouac's artworks were inherited by a relative and remained unseen in the author's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, for decades. But his artistic work--inspired by the artists of the New York School with whom Kerouac socialized in the late '50s--has remained largely unknown.

Now, this new publication offers the chance to explore what Kerouac's unique vision looked like in paint and pencil.Jack Kerouac: Beat Painting features 80 paintings and drawings by Kerouac, most of which have never before been published, shedding a completely new light on the father of the Beat Generation, and showing how he